diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index bf8cf831b942a..d3e9ca327aa16 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -1473,6 +1473,10 @@ def bool(self) -> bool_t:
         """
         Return the bool of a single element Series or DataFrame.
 
+        .. deprecated:: 2.1.0
+
+           bool is deprecated and will be removed in future version of pandas
+
         This must be a boolean scalar value, either True or False. It will raise a
         ValueError if the Series or DataFrame does not have exactly 1 element, or that
         element is not boolean (integer values 0 and 1 will also raise an exception).
@@ -1492,14 +1496,14 @@ def bool(self) -> bool_t:
         --------
         The method will only work for single element objects with a boolean value:
 
-        >>> pd.Series([True]).bool()
+        >>> pd.Series([True]).bool()  # doctest: +SKIP
         True
-        >>> pd.Series([False]).bool()
+        >>> pd.Series([False]).bool()  # doctest: +SKIP
         False
 
-        >>> pd.DataFrame({'col': [True]}).bool()
+        >>> pd.DataFrame({'col': [True]}).bool()  # doctest: +SKIP
         True
-        >>> pd.DataFrame({'col': [False]}).bool()
+        >>> pd.DataFrame({'col': [False]}).bool()  # doctest: +SKIP
         False
         """